It was amazing how many of the habits he'd developed during his long career as a jack-of-all-trades criminal could be applied to life as a werewolf. Don't draw attention. Stay on the move. Be ready to leave everything behind and run.

"How delightful to make captives from the throne of marriage with a husband as crown-prince by your side, himself in fact a subject, while the captives look up forever hopeless, losing their rest probably, and if their appetite too, so much the better!"

It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other. . . For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.